The Sun. — London, England, 1808-01-07 00:00:00

• MAILS, Cottenburgh, s Watiefor& lILICE nr sTOCKS THIS DAY' AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols • 64i I Red. Atin. - -63 k THE SUN. SOLIM etilS DICLRIS TALAust -AUDtAT ? 1, 0 N.D 0 IV, TpUBSDAY, •?,ANUAIIY 7, 1808. to A` • - \VA have received ilmerican Papers of various )01 , dates,taod dawn to the loth ult. We have not room for their contents, which, however, are of no gfrat importance. 'The tibuSe of Representatives of Penn4ylvania have refused to answer the Gover . SpeeC.4-43 to 42. A British 74, and two Frigates, on the 6th ult. anchored in Lynhaven Bay, ,and had been supplied by the inhabitants with - necessaries, information of which had bet;n stmt to General MATHEWS. • In the Meeting of the. Senate, Dee. 1, in the Bill fbr Preserving - the Antlibrity of the' United Staiesi on the ,question for striking out the Se6tion interdiet. ing the entrance of British Armed Vessels, and vest. it power its the President. to lake off the prohibi. tion, th 4 Yeas . 7, Noes f. 36: . , making an appropriation for: the more effeetual defence of the ports and. harbours of the United StateN, passed,. Dec.. a, with but little di. vision, It has been stated that orders have been sent to the different CListorn Houses, to require, froth all American Vessels ; about to sail for any. port of the.. Continentisufficient Security for the payment allay duty Which may be imposed. next Session of Par.' 'lament. This is not strialy correa. American .•• Vessels may sail 'to any Port on the Continent, If the cargo donsists of - the .produce .or manufac tures of • this Country, or' the Colonies, or with any Cargo, except thy:`articles enutherated in the Orders of Council, Jilt: O.Tocr cif any Neutral Ves 7 sel, atiout to sail to a Port on the Continent with those ,article,s„ called ,upon' to give security for, the payment: of the, duties, and if the tessel - should sail Without . s'uell'secUrity having been given, she, will be liable 'to be-Seized by our . . C;IIiI:CTS in , pursuance of the Orders in, Council.-- , . 'I hia Regulation, .has Jaecti - enfoteed ever , since the Orders:were issued. . i jtie,statement in . some of Papers, that all the Ports of Spain or Portugal are to. be strictly.block- Ale& .and that all application 'made by the Mtr akits for licences to trade io any Port in those COuntries, havd' been refused, is ,not quite . Correia. An Order, we.believe, will appear in the Gazette of Saturday, far .placing certain. Ports of Spain 'and ortugal in a sta!e of blockade'; and it. has .been thought right to Withhold Licpnees until the publi : - cation of the Order,, because otherwise . a Merchant mightobtaiii a Licence to trade to a' Pert, a'nd• that pert being ,afterwards placed in 4 state of .blockade, the LiCente would be .eneless. The late accounts from Paris state, that Buow,t- PARTE has ihatcd another Decree for prohibiting all intercourse with this 'country,. still more violent than that which. has recently reached us.. By this Decree we understand : every passenger on , hoard a !Neutral Vessel, which' . may touch at, a British should be seatcited by allritish Crniter, , shtll•t6pon, his arrival in Vrance., be con , iideret) . War, (Neu though 1w , 6hould aa subjett of Frame. But, the, violence . ' p 1 is, at . leaAsatyilled by its absurdity:, fu it vehemently assetts A*, viptiple, that fre4 bottoms n i alCe ft" Plx l s 111511)41144.C' of_ 41 prodUao :of. ILngland :its , 'Depenclencies ; Alia it, to c: %A . ip 4re n gooch, if rOtintl oil 6par'd a Neutral Ship; bunt. Eng propelty is not to be protc. , 6l.ect by a Neill al bottom, ARrit i 3 l'llpeet to Arrwrica,.. it is otdered, 1)41. it Arnitti:!attrShiPo,:laden with the produce 'of ti; J, United State, i I reach France without toleoing , at an English fort, and without being examined by a , Esitisil Crui I he' - ,irg9 and C4ll - arki: to niglergo rri!:?st rigid examination , and if adviitted, to 'au entry, bOtids,are to be given to export the *mount in French manufa&nres. The fellowin , is an Extra& of a Letter 'from France upon 4lilktruitieli;,a4ted 23d hit,— " Henceforward all siielt Ships as shall enter' any of the ports of Frittice, or any Port of ;4 Continent wider her in- Pence, shall, with their eargocs, be liable to iinmecliaie confiscation, ,if it shall appear that such Ships have touched at Ay British Port, or submitted to be sest,hed by any ti;tl 6%1'1;6; during their voyage, with this addition, That her Captain ewd (Wu 440 be gasmmiderrd and wait.' am Aqglimb frumpier? of J . Yar, and :kali be sent, as aurb t to :Perdmee, to ho exchiliiged when the , poriod , for coricruding's seneral Peacs shalt arrive! PilifOkorfijilii hive obseryed, that therassions, which, alter Iping raised to the highest degree of effer vescence, are either irritated by unexpetled _ obstacles. are almost however, to 'the intoxication of success that the power of alienating the human mind seems more particialarlyto : belongrkeaxAmaita; yain of his con _ quests, Wipireil to be thought the; son of Jupiter ; andkAPOLE:OIt BUO2III, PAV'E, who apes not dire to shew his Flag on the.ocean, declares, front .his tloset,at Milan, that the British Isles are blockaded 'by land - and - , It is easy to distinguish the Mark; of mental de-. - rangernent --which eharglerize this new measure but BUONAPARTi is not the first, Mailman who has, attained to empire, who has forced, his laws on the world, and acquired, as it were, ,a right ,to outrage, with impunity, good genie and humanity at once . FroM the Camp at Berlin thisTYrant of the Con- . tinent protnelgated, a Decree, whicA.l.Vas.the first fruit of the,Battle of Jena'; for all his vietoriesap. pear hut so many triumphs obtained over reason And public morality. This Decree destroyed all Neu-r trallly; by prollibiting the VesSets'of Neutral revers from entering an English Port. ThuSe.Poivers) en., slaved, - corrupted, or intimidated, made no remon strances against this most iniquitous law; and we have at length beencompelled to exercise our just right of reprisal, diaated'by the.verYtenor of the Decree so long since issued from 'Berlin. Bt.TONAPARTE has now the insolence to maintain, that his 'Majesty's Miniseers have thus de/ratio/feu-4 the Vessels of all nations. Without stopping te.remark on the ridi culous neologism which. the Usurper employs to ex-, press his now order of things (the. result of the last Resoltitions of the Cabinet), ,we beg v leave to observe, that ' those Resolutions, ,rfeither more nor than the simple ,conseqeences his own. Decree, it is unquestionably liitnself who , has denationalized them. BUONAPARTE .pro -I)ibits the VCESuIs of Neutrals front entering our, Ports •uhd4r pain of confiscation ; and'wc, wider the sarnepenalty, enjoin them to enter : but the prehl:; bition preceded the injtinetion ; it is.therefore eiefft that the VSUrper, - by first depriving Noun ml Statei ora . right Which, in all , ages, , had been consittured aft attached to them, denationalized the Vessels of 411 dose who chine to reco% t , ;ntze ,no other 'public right Phan the orders, of the Tyrant. :We recognized,. in •f, ' our turn, that r LlS t.IIOA4VCSieIS *erc3 dentitiolltliiZed, berunte tieccositiy tp' adopt,' with, regard to thetn; a line of which we should never have chosen if their neutral and "iodated character had ,not been thus absuidlyand.bat‘rously perverted, Whom will the y t repd.nnw..*ns . 9 011 nationalized their Vessels ? the man who; neither consulting.the local Interests, nor th'etieces'SarY re• Potions of different States,' compels theM all to adopt, indiscriminately, the same corniuercial 4414101 r; or the Power Wh e ich, seeing all access to the Cdtsti nentklenied her, observes, notwithstanding, tewatds the different States ) a just and equitehle gridation in .her measures ofi hostility .? The. Ports of Prussia, of Lubec, and ofija'ntzic., are‘'is Closely' 'shut against us as the other Pertli,:,Ofl,the Continent ; 'Majesty his ''.generotisly accorded' many adVaitta4e' s to the Flags of those .Places, pie viaiins,of Aie • rancorteis ler) , or lit/6W A 3 / 4 tTp: ls this to flenatiotr alir.kc all the Vessels of Europe ! Is it not rather to • preserve to the people the last faint gymptems.. of an individuallek n iStenc r e) which: tyrainiy, seeks to de prive them of fotiever ,'BtrowAiiAhlYal,' in his Decree dtVlhe;Otintitrenta l 81016de,. has proclair4d,..m.lloiface of Europe, , wlilah lie pre.telidTtC444lll."llPti l liil,:iln l, dation:of the Nlaritnne Right;6Mic r onsi .ohre tht:se caritiot sf,gp,':oo .any Merch:trit 1g her t o • •4, becanie those Nierehant - Ships , are.notiartrted affinst her ! This ingenious - ptAlliort is precisely analogous to that of a Sovcreii.:lti v4ii, 51i000::1116 , ,v titat,y6o might beat : his troopi,..lint that . you must hc.i(think of conquering,- ilk 'territories ! The strrdity.of sucke principle , tnu.4, we should snitp . ntit4 be.ol,Vious'io the dullest ttittlerst,Mdiug : in ;:inf4fit*, it is SC4 uytdept, that this Maritime Cade, is, pow, iti the 'liana's . of 'the world r and that BuoNArAwral not coutcrfi with recovering the rights which, as Ite says, have been itsiirped by England, is further de- KM% 'of ravishing . from- her those. which, in:com mon with every other ,Maritive Power, .s)he.haseat ull titres enjoyed; : Not satisfied with the forced atloptiou of the maxim that the Neutral Flag Lovers property, be dares to require..that'.the Belligerent Flag should equally, proted it,from our arms.; The;.iviilanese ; Deeree of . tho 17th tilt, is, in effea, • o,,re' than a repetitiOri :of that of Berlin. 'rife Hew ~tNkthition which it 'contains, is that by which tU Neutral Ve,sels, that shall be boarded by ;,iiiy.of our Ships of War; or shall have entered any of Ouv!Ports, tire doititioPhdized, and *declared lawful prizes,. 11` !net by any of livoNAoAa.i . e's Cruizers.' We knew before, that every Neutral Vessel which,' alter M opping at an English Port, should venture to enter any of.OOSC under the controul of the Tyrant, ,wti,s,;kubj , i4 to confiscation; and'if Aro LEON tuts:! repeated at Milan' what he had already published.at Berlin, it is stinply to disguise the nullity of the,: of the Cabinet, The threat of confiscating those Nciatulls which shall sail from an English to a Con tinental Port, is, ~we-allow, capable of -execution; but the, orcler,for i ,stlpz, at ea, those which shall have been boarded by an Enish~Shil~,;ls not altogether so prat a area7l JONAPARTE has One little more than betrayed his_ own impotence, by having recoursrto trcrilltraivetrettreasu . - PAts a principle which, if stdcoUld" be put in praElice, would be the excess of barbarity, and Wrch, as It is noting'' but ;an itliS'nlinice:, cess of absuraity; The' Decree :Of I\Tilati, then, is only levelled, in its principles, 'against Neutrals, and ; in reality, against no one, since it adds nothing to. the cultieS which 2rtiready embarraS•stristviga . If it -were possible to have any resulk,,,• it would - be to ruin more - eifeathally the - continental States,wlyy driving-from ,-.46.ir.r..0a5t5,.. ..1)y. au tr i se4- : piracieS,..such: Vessels as mighthe tempted to, brave., the dangers which awaited tlieM. i i the' Ports UsurPer;,, perl);lpi, to b 0 expeaed that the Conti nent should shut to siieh Vessels, as, collie queuce of the late measures, might be...brought into., aft English Port by our Cruizers but,:aft"er every allownnee tar the blind rrincotrrof 13trotrA 7 -' PARTE, it appears t In: eery ' aenie' of ridiaile 16" assign, as themotivc of it, that Merchant Vessel Ought to maintain the ittdependenCe ; of its Flag against an English Ship of Att i e-Line! 1t is this, however, whiCh IltiowArAuTE 4 ives ; Fri tertritsonie . - 71, Wyat ; leapt ckqr m - he jells,. us, "that, a Nttui9kl,. de : nationalizes itself, and 'becomes English property, , by submittitig . (e Watt Eneltsh or to wake a voyage to England!" Although litxotsiAeAtvit has 'ftver : p . erttlitted the JourrmliJts of-A.mtee-io ptthlisli-afiy--aecotiot-okhe viAories of our Fleets averhis ciwn, thv are not for that the less known there : the Masters of the . • French Privhteers, too;canibforni the Chambers of ! 'Commerce how few -*of them escape .fro M-... our I . 6rUiiers.. Thus, while, the Fleets of BUONkI'IITE, the'S`quadlons; the Ships of ,the cknntiosti. aliza themselves •and becortte. English' property. often . as they. encounter- our Vessels, -" by suit ting to Take a Voyage to England," he,requirestha - t tinartujd traders should rtiyintain theindepedircliee of their Flaf !] It evident ,;that this madman: is determinesktO 6V,Cgp every ancient institution, Until he arose, it was imagined that the Nlititarr Marine instittited to protoa tbe Mercan tile Ma rine, and td 'nlaintain the, intlepetidenee of Flago but Buot4OAATit, by his recent DeCree; has placed the honour,and ,ipdvperidetice of his Imperial Flag undo the iiroteetioti of the MerCatitile Marine' of Neutral' States ± BUONAPAETE dates to;affirtri; that et' the 'Measures • •, adopted-by England assiMilateour-legislation to that • - of Algiers !:: r wonld,hoWeyer, that, by seiling‘every Vessel which shall love been boaiddd • . , .by our Ships of War { that is, in the•present- circuni stances of rcpt is.A;' NelltrAtthat t 1641; upon the ocean, it will , bejhe Marine of the niorttl -, • sr( NA l iiLL'or; 'that t,s(ll :1 exhibit the strottgOt traitslof . ' resemblance to-that oti4 he Algerines I • 1‘1. • Catehrr, ~•• in hiS Circular Leiter ;Mucked to the Decrec,of the 17th beceMber, repres e nts, with sufficient .cleat ness, the success of privateering as the grt.‘atcst •ad- Vintage which can be-expeite&to result from the adoption ~ of „ .thenew measure, :," There ase,.t.W6 " which yet ii.iftialn ;open' to o.#'!potnincrcel`,:the' fast is; the power .of attacking evoyi. flag. which ronegnces its national,. -independ ence by:tr shameful submission to the sovereigntY.Of hilgtand,:,B o 4,, by , with an pats T , pint."' nbierves that this power will not be ne:gatory, andlthat the Merchants of France will not dedicate themselves in vain to a mode, of. War .,t * farein'which Courage and,address are seldom emied . without recompende, if we are nit mistaken, this i 1 a telerablyexplicit.avowal . of die War of COisilis, encouraged by 13UONAPARTIt We d 0 not Lipp Ioil3C1)(1 ',that they My, of Algiers could. do touch mere; and t should not be forgotten that M. Cfts.ar adduces this respeCtabte'system of piracy on a grand scale, as the only.,sPeculation in whlch the Merchants of the •Centinent can at present - engage ! .11 be speaks, in etll4, of two resources Which they yet possess,' it . Will speedily appear'lliaCthe latter neither depends on their courage,nor th . t:ir address, but simply On "..thq happiness :which some Negitids Ina; have to !ittde 4he,.uigilance of the, English Cruizers," M. Ca s± Tea- conceives that the immense extent of the coasts of the Empire will he favourable, 'this respell, .to the epterprizeS of,th44eYessels. Uecontines his observation, it seem to,, the Igediterranian : with regard to America and the two Indies, the length of the voyage is out of all proportion to the , eN.tent of coast 3..and,consequently the falling itv, some ofourcrnizers is n' much more probable- tif f cumstance.than "flit° happiness of eluding their vi gilance,"., We., may also. add, that 1 ~C #l.:i makes no mention' of the effI:ll which all' those 'ha-. lards will produce on.the rate of. insurance.; -nor st 4 c't Vessels as may sail from a Neutial Port, With a design to elude the vigilance cf the English Cruizers, yet fall under their examination; and, by that very circumstance, find themselves • unable to continue _ their cOnrse, and fultl the object of their voyage. Thecry of vengeance, which the Usurper wished tb excite on the Continent against those vigorous -• inettseres which-we have been induced to adopt, is entirely lost in the shriek of distresi "which, by 'the „ avowal of his Minister, is raised througb.all France, "..1 CEETET can neither palliate nor dissembli) the infe. , • riotity of his. Master, in • /the commercial War which he has ,so , imprudently , commenced: avows that there will be speedily neither es pOrtation nor importation on the Continent !---that France . I will be in an absolute want of cotton apd dyes, of coffee and sugar; amithe Might have added, of to., • - baccoi)f which we know there was not two. '.4 1 , 1 monthsifcrvislon in_ France ! And the Only remedy which MOM : CRETET . can find for this state of things in the great Naiion, is, to submitsto.the pri vations which it„impoSes, to substitute hen:2 and flax for cotton,' andi•above gall , to learn to subsist on their own'prd346tions.: . . If t ßgogsar#cttzg eudeaVours to hide from the French the dreadful consequences of the mersure.t. to which hirbas,compelled us to .have recourse, his Minister .(paafir) k'more frahk.',' It is true that the different-situations of the two .men imposed on. the one—the .necessifY of dissembling his fears, and, on the other, that of suff4ingthtse'ind,iitiri#glim-' merißgs, of truth to escape him : It the. business. Of BONAPARTE to 511:)i)Urti, with antiii 4 64)l4E;ql)..iti, naryttise-treasures, -fatal, indeed, to France, but'. necerairY 'to the establishment . of his usurpation, whiN he-has atiopted,':ifnalWhich"he.cannut tares. without agrOrpting, the catastrophe which awat him. It of ittpoitatiee, to M.. CEETAT to avoid being enVelOped in this catastrophe, and .to appear as a-6-Jere it:strum . silittally established. ' • . . Ancl:so4.4t 'aclvantages . dOes M. Ca STET place by 1 1 ,..side of . those Calamities which he' cannot pal 7: ~liati'?„A hope that the 'CuMmerce of Eurapc will be freed.!frAiin 'uppre3sionl!, But as this oppressionis P . 71. • , simplyvne maritime preponderance of Great Britain, ; ft tiffs its duty, in , 'order to enable. this "!hope . to sustain the fainting courage of theCoutinen,t,lO'dis-,` Cloie the rneaqolcompelli,ig Ili to receive.:the la Vt.' wllicli Bous,rAturn infects to dilate at Berlin or elsewhere. it duty, to discover, by what b 6/ Id-paved of the right, of attacking anArtiOattig oursolns masters of the Mer chant Ship: of.ourEitoinios and abOve alt, it wait incumbent on him. A) exhibit. 'a gi6tilie of the nut ries . wLich were beirriiiaed on thet:Bri t tili I4iei by gliscummerelaFstruggle,„ which. is about to itfl. pose so many and so great pnvahous on the ilia_ riot}. Of term Continent ! On all tleiC,:p9in4,l4,,'F i tvTivr Inalptalpf a.,prr found silence, and!conteott itiimiell'inth ) I fiel*lnrgt tl►at the inteteskoplly9:44Ople, the honour' kif .‘ Sovereigns, the magnanitnous resolutions of the " must potent Ally - 'of 'Prance, tli,!,pv.ver and the 7 " `will'olthe'Heru whd . governs ii, will 'coneni to 'decide 'this 'grand contest.' • Butin the enuineration•of all these means, real or imaginary, w do not, perceive a single one:' whitzh can, in the smallest degree, atiect the :power ;tif, Great , iiritain. `. l The liikrent, •of the wretcliefi ,•people" is very far froni oilering,any support to die ":154411,,t; " the honour of the leetile'Sov,ereignt4' who'll:we prostituted it, is no,tlonger to be iUnad •but in our regrets " the magnanimous resolutiOn of, th'e - Most potent Ally . of!:rang'" . ‘will Only twit to the.evidentprejudice, of the Russian Commereel ind, 'to suan pp all, " the pOwer and the will" of ' 'the , Oppressor of -,the Cont4;ent have 'given birth to a meitinfe as weak. aS'itis ridiculous, and affordii no ill augury of the success, which awaits iiitirra thC new bind cif hostility in which lie . has juilic4 l o expedient to;engage! 1 . , . ~ Yesterday, about bail-past twelve o'clock, :OS MAJESTY arrived at the Q.ueen:s Palace, from Windsor. At being a reinakaoly titre dil, and His MAJESTY being hail an ho ur later than.irigeUer . ~ a great concourse of popple 'aisetubled round t a li . - . .. Palace to endeavour ,to,Fttea. , ,lo4). The buke 9i • , —.• „, •Kliter..waS in readiness , t44%returve His otAJESTY , `Thel,.)ortes o f z OBIL, CtitEEHLAND, - Orld CAW . ‘6l l. lIItIDG . E. pane soon atter,.tu pay th eir uutitu.i " resp to their .ItoltAt. kApta4. , I,§oon alter two o'cloelc .His •MAJESiy held a private :Levge,. which .was' ist y tended by . ~. The Archbishop ,of Canterbury,' the First Lord of the _lrewary, the Lord Piesideat of the Council, the three se• ~ cret.tries of State, the first Lord or thc A:hpiralty, Om Chan" c-licr Of the Exclit:quer, the 1 udge..kavo.,te.u e ner.,l, the Pultt s or Niontrobt aaa k , t .i.lo,,ifile t.artti tioniervi 1 le and :Heitttitield, Atiintral 'Wine., Cot‘ghel i c trilOya; 4 lviajor-G e. ' t ileial -Wytli ard ciißt4T ,K iiig, it. N.li4t f Lletir.-Cul. lolni• son, Mews. ' MU, k We, alto i-,t‘i.kon4r. • -The following. had the honour ut being preseXte a , to His-mA.taiTy : .• , 1 , :-.. , .l(eareAdirtiral Hunter, uppn lisp ito talon tepOstitink. 3H, lAltnolotnew I rep, Esq.- u p o n Al eturn tiorre4onstan tinupie," here he vial' Sectou ry it; rift busload Sir Arthur _1.1q,..:,..0 ri ', '.l-ieutertant•Colunel Itilinsen, of the:A. 4 th M 1 1411404) 4 m .7 his to ereturn froin.Copcno tutn. • ; -,. ~ %, ,_-;_' ' 4,,rn' : • ~; 1 1 -4.4 : 1 6 e. G. King, Jut ow. twy.it Navy, uicniu., isms -- from tau Goverrtoruntp of New 40.. t4t_NY itte4. , ‘, ~1 X *L His grace the Duke ot.hiancwsref, un his letlkr„, - ; land tor [mates, To take upon !ant the Governorship 95777 t to